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A new welcome to Yahoo! — Yahoo! first began as Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web, a directory of links created to help organize the Internet during its very early days. That simple directory evolved through the years into the Yahoo! we know today — a starting point for your daily habits.

Announcing the Twitter Ads API — Since we launched Promoted Tweets in April 2010, marketers have come to Twitter to reach new audiences and engage with more than 200 million active Twitter users on the web, on mobile devices, and on tablets. As interest in Twitter has grown …

Steve Ballmer On the Strategy Behind His Strangest Product — Windows 8 is radically different from any previous version of the Windows operating system. Designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers, laptops, servers, and even supercomputers, Windows 8 presents its users with virtually the same interface on any device.

Durango Next-Generation Kinect Sensor — Launched in November 2010, the Xbox 360 Kinect Sensor set a world record for the fastest selling consumer electronic device, selling ten million units in its first four months alone. Natural user interface (NUI) experiences using Kinect have proved …

Preview files in Google Drive — (Cross-posted on the Google Drive Blog.) — It may sound obvious, but sometimes the best way to find something is to start looking. Beginning today, Google Drive will let you quickly preview more than 30 file types and quickly flip between files until you find the one you want.

Apple's Jonathan Ive talks design—on a beloved kids' show — “Heartwarming” isn't a word you normally associate with industrial design, but I dare you to watch this clip from beloved UK children's show Blue Peter without cracking a smile. — When asked how he would design a combination pencil case …

For $19, an Unlimited Phone Plan, Some Flaws — A typical smartphone costs around $200, but it's usually shackled to a two-year contract that often costs $70 or more monthly and includes limits on data consumption, voice minutes and texts. Even prepaid smartphones, without a contract, can cost $30 to $50 a month and carry limits.

LivingSocial raises $110 million in fresh capital — LivingSocial Inc. has raised a fresh $110 million from a group of current investors that will allow the daily deal giant to “build our reserves, solidify our long-term plans and execute against our vision for the future,” CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy told employees in a memo Wednesday.